{"id":60100,"date":"2014-02-06T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=60100"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:53:52","slug":"mozilla-previews-firefox-launcher-for-android-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-previews-firefox-launcher-for-android-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla previews Firefox Launcher for Android (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla and <a title=\"EverythingMe launcher\" href=\"http:\/\/everything.me\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EverythingMe <\/a>are teaming up to create the Firefox Launcher for <a title=\"Android tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, which will provide users with contextual recommendations for apps depending on the time of day and where you are.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox Launcher for Android will pair the adaptive app search feature from EverythingMe with Firefox for Android&#8217;s web browser to give users &#8220;a personalized and customizable Web experience that is fun and intuitive.&#8221; The launcher will group apps together under the same category to make finding your apps easier. It will also suggest apps that you&#8217;d like to use during different times of the day and depending on where you are.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Contextual launchers are nothing new but EverythingMe&#8217;s launcher does look almost like the stock Android launcher. Competitors like <a title=\"Aviate launcher\" href=\"http:\/\/getaviate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aviate<\/a> also gives contextual app recommendations but looks and feels completely different to what most Android users are used to.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about Firefox Launcher for Android since there is no preview of the app. However, users can download the EverythingMe launcher to test out how well the contextual learning of the launcher works. Mozilla promises to announce when a beta build is ready for testing but in the mean time, check out the screenshot below of what Firefox Launcher may look like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60103\" title=\"Firefox-Launcher-600x943\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/Firefox-Launcher-600x943-361x568.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox-Launcher-600x943\" width=\"361\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/Firefox-Launcher-600x943-361x568.jpg 361w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/Firefox-Launcher-600x943-162x256.jpg 162w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/Firefox-Launcher-600x943.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Mozilla\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2014\/02\/05\/preview-of-firefox-launcher-for-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/flappy-bird-has-been-copied-a-lot-may-also-be-a-clone\">Flappy Bird has been copied a lot: may also be a clone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apps-world-north-america-steve-wozniak-talks-app-innovation\">Apps World North America: Steve Wozniak talks app innovation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/kitkat-installed-on-only-1-8-of-android-devices-2\">KitKat installed on only 1.8% of Android devices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla and EverythingMe are teaming up to create the Firefox Launcher for Android, which will provide users with contextual recommendations for apps depending on the time of day and where you are. Firefox Launcher for Android will pair the adaptive app search feature from EverythingMe with Firefox for Android&#8217;s web browser to give users &#8220;a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-previews-firefox-launcher-for-android-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mozilla previews Firefox Launcher for Android (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":60105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-60100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331390,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60100\/revisions\/331390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60100"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=60100"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=60100"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=60100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}